Ji-sook manages to compose herself, but her nerves are badly rattled and she stumbles to the ground. They’re photos of her husband in the arms of another woman-the same woman who just slipped her this envelope. The instant Ji-sook looks inside, her eyes widen in alarm. He informs her that she’s caught the attention of big critics and heads off to welcome them.Īs Ji-sook chats with attendees, that mysterious woman slips an envelope under her arm, walking out of sight before she can react. Ji-sook catches a glimpse of the young woman, but is prevented from approaching her when her smiling husband joins her. The woman makes her way to an art gallery, where elegant glass artist YOON JI-SOOK ( Shin Eun-kyung) presides over the opening of her exhibition. Skipping back two more years to August 2013, we arrive in Achiara, located in the northern province of Gangwon-do, as a young woman ( Jang Hee-jin) gets off the bus in town. There’s only one word written in the return address space: “Achiara.” Names are highlighted in the article, which So-yoon recognizes as her father, mother, 9-year-old unni… and herself, age 5 at the time.
Two parents in the front, two sisters in the backseat. Suddenly, So-yoon’s mind flashes to a memory: a car colliding with a truck, flipping over. From the pictures, it looks like it’s been just the two of them for a long time.Īmong Grandma’s things is an airmail envelope, with only an old newspaper clipping inside, about an old car accident that killed an entire family. So-yoon sobs over her grandmother’s body, then packs up the apartment they shared together. She’s HAN SO-YOON ( Moon Geun-young), and she’s the woman’s only family. The dead window-washer is an elderly woman, and her granddaughter rushes to the morgue. It’s an ordinary day at an office building when suddenly, a body crashes to the pavement with a sickening thud. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. Puer Kim – “나는 니가 죽는 것도 보고 싶어” (I want to see you die) Īudio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. But right now the world is interesting, the characters are all satisfyingly suspicious, and I want to know where we’re going with this. This is the kind of show that’s so dependent on mood and suspense to keep it going that I really, really hope it can keep up the mystery-once it loses that tension, it’ll all unravel. I give the show a tentative go the premiere of Village wasn’t an outright home run for me, but I find enough about it compelling and intriguing-the execution can be a little rough around the edges but the story has a strong setup. I may be a wimp with the scary stuff, but I still want ghostly thrillers to scare me effectively, even if it means I have to watch through my fingers half the time. Village: Secret of Achiara launched today on SBS, and I was looking forward to seeing whether the show could maintain the creaky, eerie ambiance promised by the promos. 53 OctoJanuVillage: Secret of Achiara: Episode 1 by javabeans